Hinge



April 27,1925. 1,582,701

HINGE Filed April 16, 1925 INVENTOR 3 BY 6 I A'lTORN shaped arm 8 carrying a pintle pin-9Jfat the.

Patented Apr. 27, 1926.

Josarn: 'soss, or raooxrgrn, new roan.

HINGE.

Application filed April 16, 1925. Serial No. 23,702.

To all whom c'zi may concern. I

7 Be it known that I, Josnrn Soss, a citizen of the United States, and residing'at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to-make and use the same.

This invention relates to hinges and particularly to sheet metal hinges or hinges in which the separate butts are fashioned from sheet metal; and the object of the invention is to form one of the butts of a hinge of two sheet metal parts substantially L-shaped in form in cross section and which are fixedly secured together in the formation of said hinge butt, the parts which are secured together extending at right angles. to the attaching plate of the butt; a further object being to provide a sheet metal hinge butt of the class specified, the inner faces of which are adapted to lie flushly on the door and door frame, said faces on the separate parts of the buttbeing in common alinement; and

-with these and other objects in view, the invention consists in 'a hinge of the class and for the purpose specified which is strong and durable in construction, eificient in use and which .is constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Fig. 1 is a face view of a hinge made according to my invention showing the separate butts in extended position.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a hinge as shown iii-Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 o,f Fig. 1; and,

Fig. i is a perspective view of the separate parts of one of the butts of the hinge detached and in relative position for assemblage.

My invention relates to sheet metalhinges of the invisible type and employingseparate hinge butt-s 5 and 6, the butt 6 being'fa'shionedfrom two substantially L-shaped bodies bent and secured together to form an at taching plate 7 and a substantially hookhave invented certain new and free end portion thereof, the structure of the butt 6 being old in the art and is shown for the purpose of illustrating a complete hinge, my invention relating primarily to a butt 5.

The butt 5 is fashioned from two independently formed sheet metal parts 10 and 11, both of which are substantially Lshaped in form in cross section, the part 10 having an attaching plate portion 12 and a pintle l'iearing portion 13 extending at righta-ngles thereto, while the part 11 has an attaching plate portion 14 and a pintle bearing portion 15. The portions 13 and 15 are adapted to be placed one upon the other in the formation of the butt 5 and with pintle pin apertures 16 registering to receive the pintle pin 9 of the butt 6, the bearing portions 13 and 15 being secured together by a rivet 17 and weld 18 or by either of these methods separately, as may be desired. V

The part 10 or the attaching plate portion 12 thereof is provided with an aperture 19 enlarged as shown at 20 to permit the passage of thehooleshaped arm 8 and pintle pin 9 therethrough and the portion 12 adjacent the smaller portion of the aperture 19 is provided with a backwardly directed member 21 which is inclined downwardly and operates upon the top face of the arm 8 of the butt 6 in its movement relatively to the butt 5 to retain the arm 8 against rattling in the butt 5 especially when the door is in closed position or when the arm 8 is contained within the butt 5.

In practice, it is usually the custom to secure the butt 5 to the door frame and the butt 6 to the door, and the usual screw apertures 5 and 6 are provided in the separate butts or the attaching plates thereof to permit the mounting of the butts in connection with their support; The distinctive feature of my present invention resides in the construction of the butt 5 from two sheet metal parts, substantially L-shaped in form, which when secured together will form a strong and durable bearing portion for the pintle pin of the hinge by virtue of the double thickness of the metal provided by the parts 13 and 15. It will be furthernoted that a hinge butt constructed in the manner herein set out will have a smooth outerface aswell as a smooth inner face, the walls of which are in common alinement, preventing unnecessary gouging of the door frame in mounting the butt 5 1n connection fr'therewith. It

will be apparent that I am not necessarily limited to the specific shape and form of the hinge herein shown and described and various other changes therein and modifications of the construction herein shown and described, may be made Within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Haring fully de.;cribed my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hinge butt -fashioned from two substantially similar sheet metal parts L-shaped in form in cross section, said parts comprising a pintle bearing portion and an attaching plate portion, and the pintle bearing portion of the separate parts being adapted to be placed one upon the other and secured 20 together and the attaching plate portion of said parts extending in opposite directions in the formation of a hinge butt.

2. A hinge butt fashioned from two substantially snnilar sheet metal parts L-shaped in form in cross section, said parts comprising a pintle bearing portion and an attaching plate portion. the pintle bearing portion of the separate parts being adapted to be placed one upon the other and secured together and the attaching plate portion of said parts extending in opposite directions in the formation of a hinge butt, and said pintle bearing portions being apertured to receive the pintle pin of the other butt of the hinge.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name (has 15th day of April 1925.

JOSEPH SUSS. 

